Guo Shuang (郭爽, born February 26, 1986) is a Chinese professional track cyclist. She won two bronze medals at the 2006 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, in Sprint and Keirin, and two silver medals at the 2007 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, again in Sprint and Keirin.
Guo had an eventful semi-final in the sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics, having won the first heat and conceded the second to her opponent Anna Meares, the third heat saw Guo come down the banking too steeply and her front wheel slipped from beneath her. The heat was re-run and although Guo won by a few millimetres, she was relegated for coming down the tack and pushing Meares onto the côte d'azure on the final lap. This put Meares through to the final ride-off for gold. Guo went on to win the final ride-off for the bronze against Willy Kanis.
Guo competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She and Gong Jinjie set a world record of 32.447 seconds in the qualification round of the team sprint event, which they then improved upon with 32.422 in the next round. They went on to finish first in the final against the German team, but were disqualified for an early relay, and were relegated to the silver medal instead. Guo and Gong's coach Daniel Morelon maintains that the pair were "robbed" of the gold medal, and described it as an "injustice". He complained that the judges refused to provide a "video footage of the race on slow motion", and only provided a "vague explanation" for the infringement they had allegedly committed. However, the British cycling champions Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish, who were also disqualified for a similar reason earlier on in the competition, accepted the judges decision and chose not to claim that they were unfairly robbed of a medal. Pendleton recovered and went on to win a gold medal in the women's keirin event with Guo Shuang coming 2nd.Victoria Pendleton wins gold in the women's keirin at London 2012 Olympics. www.telegraph.co.uk. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
Palmarès
2004 2004 World Cup 1st Keirin, Moscow 1st Keirin, Sydney
2005 2004–2005 World Cup 2nd Sprint, Sydney 2nd Keirin, Sydney 2005–2006 World Cup 3rd Sprint, Manchester
2006 World Championships, Bordeaux 3rd Sprint 3rd Keirin 2005–2006 World Cup 3rd Sprint, Los Angeles 2nd 500 m, Los Angeles 2nd Keirin, Los Angeles 2006–2007 World Cup 1st Keirin, Sydney Asian Games 1st 500 m 1st Sprint
2007 World Championships, Palma de Mallorca 2nd Sprint 2nd Keirin 2006–2007 World Cup 3rd 500 m, Los Angeles 1st Keirin, Los Angeles 2nd Sprint, Manchester 3rd Keirin, Manchester 2007–2008 World Cup 3rd Team Sprint, Beijing
2008 1st Sprint, Fenioux France Trophy 2007–2008 World Cup 3rd Sprint, Copenhagen 3rd Sprint, 2008 Summer Olympics
2009 World Championships, Pruszków 1st Keirin 2008–2009 World Cup 2nd Keirin, Round 4, Beijing 3rd Keirin, Round 5, Beijing 3rd Team sprint, Round 5, Beijing 2009–2010 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics 2nd Keirin, Round 1, Manchester 2nd Sprint, Round 1, Manchester 2nd Keirin, Round 2, Melbourne 2nd Sprint, Round 2, Melbourne
2012 Olympic Games, London 2nd Team sprint (with Gong Jinjie) 3rd Individual Sprint 2nd Keirin 2014 Grand Prix de Vitesse de Saint-Denis 1st Keirin 1st Sprint GP von Deutschland im Sprint 2nd Keirin 2nd Sprint Incheon International Track Competition 2nd Keirin 2nd Sprint Cottbuser SprintCup 3rd Keirin 3rd Sprint 2015 China Track Cup 1st Sprint 2nd Keirin 3rd Keirin Melbourne Cup on Wheels 2nd Keirin 2nd Sprint 2nd Keirin, Super Drome Cup South Australian Grand Prix 3rd Keirin 3rd Sprint 2017 National Track Championships 1st Keirin 3rd Team Sprint (with Zhong Tianshi)
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